Just to follow on Dave Michaels' earlier posting about Rep. Chet Edwards' announcement that he'll vote against the Democrats' health care bill... The politics of his decision, and the reactions to it, are interesting. Edwards' district is Republican enough that...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has unveiled the House health reform bill. Reactions are pouring in. Pop quiz: Does this sound like it came from a Republican or a Democrat? "This is a gargantuan expansion of government takeover of our health...
Sen. John Cornyn devoted much of his weekly conference call with reporters, naturally, to health care. He's been busily trying to amend the Baucus bill in the Senate Finance Commitee and, arguably, using his seat on that panel to score...
The Senate Finance Committee has begun reviewing the proposal filed by Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. As a relatively junior member, and a member of the minority, Texan John Cornyn is having to wait his turn, which he'll use to argue...
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was on PBS' NewsHour last night, on a segment about discord and partisanship. They're pretty bad, in her judgment. "It's the worst that I've experienced, and I'm in my 17th year here," she said. The...
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Texas Sen. John Cornyn argued this morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" against an "ideological fixation on the public option" - the boogeyman in the health care debate....
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, tonight lauded President Barack Obama for citing his constituent, Robin Beaton - a breast cancer survivor from Waxahachie whose insurance company used a preexisting acne condition to drop her coverage. Barton pressured the insurer to back...
President Obama has cited a Texas case as a case in point for what's wrong with the health care system - a woman whose breast cancer treatment was delayed when the insurance company canceled her policy for failing to...
One of the chief agitators against Obama-style health reform, Dick Armey -- the Dallas-area conservative who served as U.S. House majority leader in the 1990s -- is offering a darkly cynical prediction: The Obama administration, he says, will use fears...
In a DMN story today, Marjorie Korn reports that North Texas Dems Chet Edwards and Eddie Bernice Johnson won't have town halls during the August recess. Republicans are demanding that Edwards hold a town hall, but Edwards won't do it,...
Undoubtedly you have heard about the protest at Rep. Lloyd Doggett's public meeting in Austin. Doggett was cornered by a posse that chanted "just say no" as he talked about healthcare at a grocery store parking lot in Southwest Austin....
As part of some reporting I'm doing on healthcare reform, I asked Gov. Perry's office what he thinks about the potential expansion of Medicaid, which the House and Senate bills propose. A few minutes ago, the staff pointed me to...
Health insurance companies had few friends in a House subcommittee hearing in Washington on Tuesday as former policyholders testified about their struggle to gain coverage for medical treatments before the heads of companies that had denied it to them. Robin...
As promised, in an earlier post about the re-emergence of former Texas hospital executive Rick Scott as Mr. Obamacare-Not!, here is Congressman Michael Burgess' 2-minute interview with Scott, videotaped this week: Burgess, R-Lewisville, is a doctor. There are more of...
Rick Scott started with two small hospitals in El Paso. With Fort Worth billionaire Richard Rainwater's help, he built the world's largest health care company, Columbia/HCA. Then Scott was fired by his board 12 years ago, amid the nation's...
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